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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Eboe children named?
(a) A name is drawn from a hat.
(b) Based on something that happened around the time of their birth.
(c) Every son is named after his father.
(d) The Embrenche name all the children.

2. When Equiano is enslaved to a chief, what kind of shop does he work in?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A blacksmith's shop.
(c) A goldsmith's shop.
(d) A bakery.

3. What two skills is Equiano taught as a child?
(a) Agriculture and warfare.
(b) Snake charming and bartering.
(c) Tracking deer and killing birds.
(d) Herbal healing and banjo playing.

4. What does Equiano's first name, Olaudah, mean?
(a) Scar on the forehead.
(b) Village elder.
(c) Fortunate, or having a loud voice.
(d) Slave.

5. What two things does Equiano think are "magic" when he sees a town built by white people for the first time?
(a) Cars and tents.
(b) Horses and large brick houses.
(c) Bicycles and apartment buildings.
(d) Canoes and teepees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about the second slave ship?

2. How do Eboe people acquire slaves?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 1, how does Equiano say God has treated him?

4. What sign is used to mark an Embrenche?

5. While traveling from one place to another in Africa, which of the following does Equiano learn?

(see the answer key)

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